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In United States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, [1] an Alford guilty plea, [2] [3] [4] and the Alford doctrine, [5] [6] [7] is a guilty plea in criminal court, [8] [9] [10] whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but accepts imposition of a sentence.
LEILA FUJIMORI / LFUJIMORI @STARADVERTISER.COM Juan Baron, left, testifies Friday at a hearing on his motion to withdraw his guilty plea. A Spanish-language interpreter sat with him. The 25-year ...
A man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the December 2020 shooting of another man is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea and obtain new attorneys to represent him.
In the motion to withdraw the guilty plea, Schiavone of Schiavone Law Group argued that Anderson’s “plea was not knowingly and voluntarily made,” and that he “received ineffective ...
Jul. 16—A man sentenced last month to life plus 136 years in prison in a case described by prosecutors as "child torture" filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, according to court documents.
A judge has denied a Boise man’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea to the first-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend. Boise resident David Randall filed a motion asking to rescind his guilty plea ...
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
In November 2017, the Utah Supreme Court rejected Allgier's self-represented motions to withdraw his guilty pleas. [17] The court ruled that Allgier knew conditions of his guilty pleas and was unable to withdraw them due to missing a deadline, and furthermore that Allgier had failed to establish that his lawyers did not adequately represent him.